PI
Rachel Schwartz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island. I run a dry lab focused on computational evolutionary genetics. My interest is in developing methods to understand evolution, with a particular focus on how we analyze large genomics datasets. I also have an interest in reproducible research and in teaching research skills to students and other researchers.
Postdocs
Robert (Bob) Literman is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow developing computational methods to identify and classify high-information and low-information subsets of phylogenomics data.
Tejashree Modak is a postdoctoral researcher developing computational tools to identify and characterize duplications in genomes in order to understand their role and evolutionary significance.
Graduate Students
Eren Ada is a PhD student in the Schwartz Lab whose research interests include phylogenomics, bioinformatics, and genomics.
Yana Hrytseno is a PhD student in Computer Science working with Noah Daniels and in the Schwartz Lab.
Undergraduates
Caitlin Guccione (URI MS Applied Math ’20 and CS ’20) is applying machine learning methods to SISRS output to categorize potentially noise in phylogenetic markers.
Fidaa Janoudi is developing a website for undergraduates to understand the research done at URI.
Tiantian Gousie (URI BIO ’20) is using SISRS to examine how different datasets result in different phylogenies in birds.
Devin McConnell (URI CS ’19) is updating and documenting SISRS code.
Alumni
Undergraduates
Baizat Ibrahim (URI CMB ’19)
AY Akintomide (URI CMB ’20)
Talia Santos (URI BIO ’18)